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Pure Tone Audiometer Tests:
Number of individual children tested during the year:
(a) For the first time - 584
(b) As a review case - 257
Total - 841
Auditory Training:
81 individual children received regular auditory training
during the year. Number of attendance sessions:
(a) At the Audiology Clinic - 154
(b) At home or school - 381
Total - 535
Sweep Testing of five year old school entrants:
Number of schools visited 40
Number of children tested 3,964
Number of children passed 3,391
Number of children failed 403
Number of children to be re-tested 170
Number of children not tested
(absent or unco-operative) 386
The 403 failures were followed up:
No hearing loss 22
Negligible hearing loss 18
Slight hearing loss 121
Moderate hearing loss 131
Moderately severe hearing loss 58
Severe hearing loss 20
Failed to keep appointment 28
Left district 5
Total 403
Issue of Hearing Aids
(a) National Health Service "Medresco" Aids - 8
(b) Commercial Aids bought by
Croydon L.E. A. - 3
Total 11
3 children under school age are using hearing aids.